The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-25

home in disgrace This foe tramples down law
in the interests of business or party; stufs the
ballot-box repudiates the Constitution, ignores
the voice of the people, sneers at religion ana
God. It's rank and file Is made mp of ignorance,
drunkenness, licentiousnsss, dishonesty. cupidity
and covetousness Its leaders are saloon keepers
and political demagogues. Let the pulpit, the
PRESS, the school. the church, the statesman and
the reformer rally all together for the defense OF
the constitutional provisions and fundamental
principles of our free government
First of all, then, we must insist upon the es-
sential worth, nobility and dignity of politics.
The popular impression to-day Is that poitcs
is dirty pool that necessarily soils everyone
VINO comes in contact with it; that whoever en-
tiers the political arena must Go so at the saerl-
hce of his manhood.
Who is responsible for this low and degrading
estimate of American politics? Arc the llps OF
ministers to be hermetiealy sealed, and are the
public schools to teach no lessons whatever on
this subject Must the young and rising gen.
GRAFTON get their idea of politics from the sa-
loon, the political hummer and dead beat, sne
demagogue. and the partisan, character oeform-
ing newspaper Let the oncoming generation De
thoroughly indoctrinated in the fundamental
principlec of our free government; let 1t be
known by every possible agency of education
and instruction that to shape the policy OF the
Nation, to FIX tho fate of the generations Is the
high and noble work of the politician; that the
welfare of the community is OF more I'M
portance than the welfare of the individual, and
self accordingly, so that our American politics
may be lifted out of the slums
In the second place. Gods word must have the
right OF way in this country. Itinsists upon 60
| ing with man everywhere, to supervise his DO
ings and regulate his affairs; into the halls of
state; into the cabinets of kings and presdentsi
into courts of justice; into schools, colleges and
| universities; into every Office, counting-room,
mill, store. shop and factory. the infallible
| standard of right, and the only sufficient rule OF
| faith and practice. With its exceeding broad
commandments so broad that they touch life at
! all points, it does not consent to any abrldge-
ment of its authority OF limitation of its domain
We must. in the interests of this great Repu bile.
| stand by the Bible and its claims to universal
| empire And, finally. let none of the incoming
| tides Of rationalsm and materiallsm shake our
confidence in God. In God we trust is our
national motto, and just sure as God is i'm.
mutable, and holds not with palsied hand and
| heartless power his scepter over nations, If we
| do not recognize his laws, and forget his stat
utes, but rush in blindness upon the bosses OF
| His bucker, we must go down like a reed in the
storm path and, with all the nations that forget
| God, sit at the mouth Of hell, a wreck and ruiz
| forever.
| Hearken unto my voice, and will give thee
counsel and God shall be with thee be thou for the
| people to godward that thou mayest bring thel
causes unto Gcd
Aud, Furthermore, God will show us the worl
| that We must do, and the way wherein we mus
| walk